— N. component; component part, integral part, integrant part[obs3]; element, constituent, ingredient, leaven; part and parcel; contents; appurtenance; feature; member &c. (part) 51; personnel.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

I had been prejudiced against astrology from my childhood, partly because I observed that many people are sequaciously attached to it, and partly because of a prediction made by our family astrologer: "You will marry three times, being twice a widower."
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

So that once when some said to him, “You have no affection for your country,” “Be silent,” said he, “for I have the greatest affection for my country,” pointing up to heaven.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

In the eleventh century, a fanatic monk could precipitate Europe on Asia for the recovery of the holy sepulchre; but in the fifteenth, the most pressing motives of religion and policy were insufficient to unite the Latins in the defence of Christendom.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

p. 65) we learn that its average breadth is about four miles; consequently Pliny’s statement as to its circumference must be greatly exaggerated.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

H2 anchor Chapter 12 In the evening the hunters returned, having enjoyed good sport, and being literally loaded with game; indeed, they had as much as four men could possibly carry.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

If any person who prosecutes another for murder can produce a certain number of witnesses to it of his own relations, the accused person shall be held guilty.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

Mea fīlia agricolīs parat cēnam ( mea and cēnam emphatic) Agricolīs fīlia mea cēnam parat ( agricolīs emphatic)
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

II.— Withstand the beginnings, avoid occasions, change his place: fair and foul means, contrary passions, with witty inventions: to bring in another, and discommend the former .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Mea fîlia agricolîs parat cênam ( mea and cênam emphatic) Agricolîs fîlia mea cênam parat ( agricolîs emphatic)
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

In the evening the hunters returned, having enjoyed good sport, and being literally loaded with game; indeed, they had as much as four men could possibly carry.
— from Abandoned by Jules Verne

After a few minutes' conference Peña put Gonzalo in position and handed him a loaded pistol.
— from The Fourth Estate, vol. 2 by Armando Palacio Valdés

Many of its employees are single men, comparatively new at the business; they can afford to be frankly told to go elsewhere in search of work; but to hold everybody while scaling the wages of all hands, month after month, down, down until a family man cannot pay his rent and feed his children, then the cord breaks.
— from A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike by Charles King

We had a long drive from Cagli to Sigillo through a fine mountainous country, passing over some small Roman bridges, easily distinguished from those of modern times, by the gigantic size of the blocks of stone of which they are formed.
— from Journal of a Tour in the Years 1828-1829, through Styria, Carniola, and Italy, whilst Accompanying the Late Sir Humphrey Davy by J. J. Tobin

About half an hour later he heard a low, murmuring sound in the distance, and in a few moments could plainly distinguish galloping hoofs.
— from With Rifle and Bayonet: A Story of the Boer War by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton

You never can take from me the right to share your home, and find my chief pleasure in its luxury; nor can you, by the oath which I made you take as the condition of our marriage, in any way deprive my child of the shelter of this roof."
— from The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 by Various

Tom Fish felt very differently about the matter of the Indians’ friendship, but he kept these thoughts to himself for the time being, and though there are far more comfortable places than a camp in a great wilderness on a cold November night, the lads from Connecticut would have been entirely happy had it not been for the mystery of the strange prowler, the thought that several times they had been secretly fired upon, and that there was no knowing when another attack might be made in which the aim of the dastardly assailant need be but a trifle better to end the life of one or both of them, perhaps.
— from Far Past the Frontier by James A. (James Andrew) Braden

It may be said to play a far more conspicuous part than any other Tertiary group in the solid framework of the earth's crust, whether in Europe, Asia, or Africa.
— from The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science by Henry Alleyne Nicholson